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@NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states

www.aljazeera.com

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Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states

www.aljazeera.com

@NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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Niger says France is gathering troops, equipment in Senegal, Ivory Coast and Benin with a view to military intervention.
  • @tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works
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    8•2 years ago

    Niger’s junta knows this how?

    • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      10•2 years ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians were feeding them intelligence

      • HobbitFoot
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        11•2 years ago

        You’re getting downvoted, but the Wagner Group has a stake in this coup being successful and the group has ties to the Russian government.

        • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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          7•2 years ago

          Yeah I dunno why people find that so hard to believe. They have a clear interest in propping up this coup.

          • HobbitFoot
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            2•2 years ago

            There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.

            • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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              2•2 years ago

              I realize now the lemmygrad folks are here so that prob explains the downvotes

              • HobbitFoot
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                3•2 years ago

                It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.

    • @freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      Because you don’t just have a coup after having a stroke of insight from a night of binge drinking?

      It’s a movement led military units that have deep political and intelligence connections. They know a lot of things that aren’t going to be admitted by the West.

    • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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      Satellites

      • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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        8•2 years ago

        Binoculars

        • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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          -1•2 years ago

          That too.

          • @Noodle07@lemmy.world
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            3•2 years ago

            Snapchat world map view

            • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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              2•2 years ago

              Wait, you’re joking but that actually could work.

            • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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              -1•2 years ago

              That too.

              • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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                2 years ago

                Pokédex…?

                • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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                  -4•2 years ago

                  🤔 …That too.

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